Key Takeaways Tree rings can reveal past floods and droughtsUsing several tree species gives better water dataFindings may ...

FILE - A woman watches the sun set on a hot day, Aug. 20, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. A new study on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern ...

Scientists have known for some time that tree rings record the history of avalanches. Now a new method allows them to study the rings without killing the tree. The impact of an avalanche is clear on ...

A photo of a shipwreck, buried in silt for centuries and containing cargo in unbroken ceramic vessels, drew the only gasps at a recent seminar on the archaeology of the Mediterranean at the University ...

Weather patterns like heat waves or dry spells can sometimes stall over one region. A new University of Arizona study found clues about why. The researchers analyzed tree rings from centuries-old ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest ...